Police said the truck and driver had all the proper paperwork and license to transport flammable materials. The truck had many different substances inside of it.

“The mixture of the chemicals -- it is a hazardous material and that's why we have the clean-up crew here. We do have DEC [Department of Environmental Conservation] here. They do have a rep coming back up and that's how the determination was made,” said Champlain Fire Chief Pete Timmons.

It took crews nearly 8 hours to figure out the exact substance that leaked from the truck. The fluid was ethyl alcohol, a highly flammable substance used in hair dye.

The truck was stopped at just about the last checkpoint that all commercial vehicles go through as they cross the border and because of that, crews decided to reroute all traffic including passenger cars for about four hours.

“With a hazmat incident we have to evacuate 150 feet, according to the shipment papers from what the driver had,” said Timmons.

Despite the spill, not all of the contents in the truck were tainted. According to the Champlain fire chief, the company has plans to get those materials on to New Jersey.

“The driver is out of hours and he can't drive anymore, and we have to clean the truck up, so the company has another trailer coming in and we have a machine coming in from Vermont to swap the loads to another truck,” said Timmons.